TUC general secretary PAUL NOWAK speaks to the Morning Star’s Berny Torre about the increasing frustration the trade union movement feels at a government that promised change, but has been too slow to bring it about
US policy on Venezuela: All roads lead to US military invasion
The people of Venezuela need our solidarity more than ever, says FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ
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The EIS president who defended Marxist politics in the 1980s fought Thatcherite educational policies while organising Teachers for Peace rallies and ensuring Morning Star circulation in Scotland’s pit villages and factories, writes JOHN FOSTER
WORLD corporate media propaganda notwithstanding, it is abundantly clear that US aggression against the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela has nothing to do with human rights, humanitarian aid, democracy or the wellbeing of its people.
President Donald Trump and his Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Pence, Pompeo, Bolton and Abrams) have thrown away any pretence that altruistic objectives animate their persistent efforts to bring about “regime change” in Venezuela: the objective is US control over the planet’s largest deposits of oil (and over huge deposits of gold, coltan, thorium, diamonds, aluminium, iron, water and other commodifiable raw materials that would come in very handy to the US’s crumbling and declining economy).
Ever since the election of Hugo Chavez in 1999, the US has made every effort to overthrow the government of Venezuela.
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